Managing diffuse-source discharges to land and water in Taranaki
Managing diffuse-source discharges to land and water in Taranaki - Taranaki Regional Council
Managing diffuse-source discharges to land and water in Taranaki - Taranaki Regional Council
their performance, while the remaining one (<1%) achieved a rating of poor. This report includes recommendations for the 2023-2024 monitoring period page Table of contents Page 1 Introduction 1 Compliance monitoring programme reports and the Resource Management Act 1991 1 Introduction 1 Structure of this report 1 The Resource Management Act 1991 and monitoring 1 Investigations, interventions, and incidents 2 Evaluation of
performance Besides discussing the various details of the performance and extent of compliance by the consent holders, this report also assigns a rating as to each Company’s environmental and administrative performance during the period under review. Environmental performance is concerned with actual or likely effects on the receiving environment from the activities during the monitoring year. Administrative performance is concerned with the Company’s approach to demonstrating consent compliance …
categorised, 2 were rated ‘poor’, 1 was rated ‘improvement required’, 2 were rated ‘good’ and 14 ‘high’. During the year under review there were eight incidents associated with the Whareroa site (five incidents linked with milk spills requiring disposal of product via the marine outfall, two incidents involving stormwater pond non-compliances and one incident requiring the disposal of milk permeate to land). One Infringement Notice was issued during the 2012-2013 period relating to non- compliant
Besides discussing the various details of the performance and extent of compliance by the consent holder/s during the period under review, this report also assigns a rating as to each Company’s environmental and administrative performance. Environmental performance is concerned with actual or likely effects on the receiving environment from the activities during the monitoring year. Administrative performance is concerned with the Company’s approach to demonstrating consent compliance in site
rating for their environmental and administrative performance during the period under review. Environmental performance is concerned with actual or likely effects on the receiving environment from the activities during the monitoring year. Administrative performance is concerned with the Company’s approach to demonstrating consent compliance in site operations and management including the timely provision of information to Council (such as contingency plans and water take data) in accordance
performance Besides discussing the various details of the performance and extent of compliance by the Company, this report also assigns them a rating for their environmental and administrative performance during the period under review. Environmental performance is concerned with actual or likely effects on the receiving environment from the activities during the monitoring year. Administrative performance is concerned with the Contact Energy’s approach to demonstrating consent compliance
effluent from the Stratford Wastewater Treatment Plant into the Patea River. A 20 year timeframe provides the required certainty to enable the upgrades to be investigated and undertaken over time. The proposed plant upgrades are aimed at improving the effluent quality while remaining cost effective for the rate payers. There is no requirement for upgrading the plant capacity. The timeframe of the upgrade stages are based on economic considerations. The upgrades proposed are: •
are all rated as nationally significant assets.5 Electricity There are two levels of connectivity for the Taranaki electricity network: The high voltage national electrical transmission system that covers both North and South Islands. This system connects generation sources to local substations and is operated by Transpower. The Taranaki region connects at Stratford to the National Grid through 220 kV circuits that run north to Huntly and south-east to
determined using the p value (p < 0.05 = significant). When multiple correlations are undertaken, there is a chance that some will be found to be significant purely by chance. In order to deal with this potential problem, the Benjamini-Hochberg False Discovery Rate (FDR) method was applied to the results of the Man-Kendall test. Further justification for this statistical approach can be found in Stark and Fowles (2006). Photo 1 Bacteriological sampling page 8